I don’t know about that. Figure a store must have 50 or more cameras. That’s a lot of bandwidth, way more than standard cable, maybe need a T-1 line. A more affordable is on sight back up hard drives. ( They’re cheap )
“Costco will give our attorney, Ross Goodman, an unaltered copy of the appropriate Summerlin-store surveillance-video recorded on July 10th. We know another copy exists, archived offsite, per Costco’s insurance requirements. And METRO’s Sheriff Gillespie will release the 911-call audio tape, at least to Ross Goodman, if not to the Las Vegas media.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2579595/posts
According to the info I read, the camera snapshots (it's not continuous streaming but a sequence of 'snap' shots) is burned to CD.
It was the CD they sent to LA.
The point of an offsite backup is so that if there is an event that causes the local equipment to be destroyed they still have a copy. If you put it on a local secondary system, then it is just as susceptible to conditions damaging the primary.
What makes this most suspicious is that both copies are unavailable/damaged. Why do they spend so much on a video recording systems with such poor reliability that they have no record of a whole sequence of events that led to a man’s death?
The death is a tragedy that I might chalk up to bad training and bad timing worthy of a big wrongful death settlement in favor of the family. But the stench of cover up is what is most disturbing about the case and puts the store and officers’ action in the realm of criminal in my opinion.